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Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead
Frankie70 writes with word of a Twitter-account hijacking that's raised eyebrows today, supplying a link to the account in question. From the Telegraph's account: "'The Twitter account of the American Fox News Politics team was compromised and used to falsely announce the death of the U.S. president. Hackers, who identified themselves as 'The Script Kiddies' and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group Anonymous, used the account to write: 'BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP.'"
This is your corporate account. How does this happen?
In all fairness, Fox News did claim (accidentally) that the president was dead in Afghanistan.
until I see the long form death certificate....
what's the point of hacking fox news to spread disinformation? Just leave them alone and they will do it by themselves.
Yeah, you can tell it's an obvious fake as they call it a "sad day". Fox would never do that.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I don't understand why these tweets have not yet been deleted 6-7 hours after they were posted. Does Fox News not know you can delete tweets?
Every one of these 'hacker' news stories brings us one step closer to an internet kill switch. The government knows that the riots will begin soon in the US, and they are trying to set things up to make it hard to communicate. Beware.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/04/foxnewspolitics-twitter-feed-hacked/
no problem, we'll just attach more strings...
When content falsely attributed to LulzSec started showing up on Pastebin, and their response was essentially "it's not real unless we tweet it", I really, *really* wanted someone to crack their Twitter account. A Twitter credentials dump could lead to some some serious lulz.
Come on kids, everyone knows the only real way to get back at an evil media mogul is to broadcast him on his own channel saying that his viewers mean as much to him as a festering bowl of dog snot does. Bonus points if you get the reference.
Monstar L
So I guess you're voting for the Republican candidate in 2012 then?
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Insert logo, sidebars, random tips about hashtag and @ usage, and cute birdies as needed.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
it is a major headline and an opportunity for the childlike masses to stroke themselves into a frenzy of Fox bashing and demonizing
Those of us who actually read the headline for this slashdot article noticed it started with "hijacked fox news twitter account". If slashdot was actually looking to make fox news look bad, they would have chosen a less-friendly headline. Both news outlets are on the payroll of newsmax.com/townhall.com.
Palin
Is not officially running for anything right now. We just know she loves being in front of a camera.
Bachmann
Is running, but writes her own jokes.
Trump
Has already dropped out of the running.
unclever anti-fox KOS memes.
Do you honestly believe that the daily Kos is the only website ever to make a joke at fox news's expense?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Why would someone "hack" a Fox news twitter account and promptly announce something that the followers of that account would cheer at, or at least be mildly glad of it? Why Tweet something huge like that?
Everything about the Tweet that was sent screams immature and/or amateur, but the content of it hints at some twisted intent that no real hackers would have.
"The Script Kiddies"? Come the fuck on.
If I were going to hack a Fox Twitter account, I'd send a message that was contrary to Fox's agenda. Something like "Boehner, Cantor, McConnell found performing gay satanic ritual in Capitol basement. Nervous goats on scene, US flags burning."
Or rather, just reduce spending until the debt goes away. Whatever you do, don't raise my taxes, because the economy isn't my problem.
I'd rather the hackers' USB rights were revoked, and they were forced to revert to RS-232-C.
Are you serial about that?
"I am an Adept of Tantric VAX."
Do you always add shitloads of crazy stuff to the posts you comment on or is that just when you do not have a leg to stand on?
I can not really see in my post where I advocated killing all Muslims.
I do though agree that any Christian church that keeps its mouth shut when Christians do horrible things should be looked at closely and trusted not at all.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Because you blame the religious tensions on terrorists. The religious tensions have absolutely nothing to do with the actual 9/11 attack, and everything to do with America (as a whole, not as in every individual) started equating Muslim and Terrorist afterwards. If instead, people had been intelligent and gone "Religion is only an excuse for their actions, not the reason," and not decided that bombing the fuck out of every country the terrorists had a camp in, there wouldn't be the rise in religious tension.
So, you yourself are just as guilty as the "bomb the fuck out of everyone" crapheads in promoting religious intolerance by saying "They came and killed us and that increased religious tensions." You are laying the blame for the attacks at the foot of their religion, instead of where it belongs. On the attackers, and their POLITICAL AND MORAL ideology. Their religion may have helped form those, but to blame their religion is to also lump every Christian in with Westboro Baptist Church.
So true. That's one stroke of genius by President Obama. By selecting Biden for VP he made sure even the KKK pray for the health of the President every night.
I just received mod points and I was torn on whether to mod a comment up for a sentiment I agree with regarding this topic, or to post myself. I don't really want to mod down those I disagree with, I would like to. but I will be satisfied if their score remained 0. I understand the diversity in political opinions, and realize people's opinions of this will cover the spectrum, myself included, however I think a lot of these opinions lack objectivity. I understand Fox is a right leaning news org, and most of their employees have opposite ideals and political leanings than that of the President, however I highly doubt that the disgusting msgs tweeted from their account originated from anyone at Fox News. It would do nothing to serve their interests, and they stand to gain nothing from this, they could only lose. Their enemies are a many, and seek to discredit them in anyway they can. Go to Media Matters website. The last time I was there, not ONE story was about anything other than Fox News, and not one was positive, nor would I expect it to be knowing the sources behind it. It stands to reason that this is a result of the ideology behind sites such as that as opposed to Fox News using their brand and power to shout out something so obviously untrue. Think about it. Even if you hate Fox, it just doesn't make sense for anyone working their to think that this would serve any agenda. If I could believe that someone at Fox did this, it is an incredible stretch to think that anyone in a management or supervisory role would think this was a good idea. The most likely offense they are guilty of in this situation, is having a weak password protecting their twitter account. Of course I can't say with certitude who is responsible for this, but this stinks of opposition tactics, and it's not even well done. I am disappointed in many of the comments I am seeing here, but I will save my mod points for comments more worthy of them.
the religious tensions i'm sure have nothing to do with the fact that your government convinced the taliban to fight a proxy war against the USSR, then after the commies went back home, you just left them with the country in ruins, the economy colapsed and not even a "thank you" note.
oh, the inconditional support to israel's near genocidal policies have nothing to do with it either.
you know, there's only so much bullying and lying you can get away with before someone slams an airplane or three in your buildings.
What ? Me, worry ?
Tax revenue raises itself, when the economy grows, and is more likely to do if the economy isn't being bled by government and kept from growing.
All the money that comes into the government goes out again, usually into economic circulation. So while it's in the interests of the economy to cut taxes on economic activity, it's also worth taxing money that would otherwise be taken out of circulation. And yet it's tax cuts on the income of the rich (which contributes far less to economic activity than that of the poor) which the republicans are most strongly advocating.
I am trolling
I think you are posting on the wrong forum. This site, through the surprisingly effective moderation system, leans heavily toward rational analysis when compared to most.
While there is a significant bias in favor of a fairly strict interpretation of the Bill of Rights (though at times the second gets shorter shrift than I might prefer) on this site, that is a bias that would serve my nation (and, I believe, most nations) quite well. And it may be that the offenses to the first and fourth have been most heavily observed to come from the side of the aisle you seem to prefer (at least until Obama took that ball and ran with it). But your post seems targeted at forums which play host to leftists. Certainly the amount of rational disdain that this forum focuses on the left-oriented oligarchs in the health care, law, and copyright industries should be more than adequate evidence of the lack of partisan line-toe-ing here.
Save your implications of dupery for people who do not engage in critical thinking. Your attempt to induce stigma-based inhibition to identifying and publishing cases of media bias and politicians who generate more heat than light are neither warranted nor productive in this place.
If you must pander to one side, do it by pointing out factual errors or examples of emotionalism on the side you do not like. Engage in creative destruction by rational deconstruction; leave your emotionalist inhibition mongering at home.
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Except the rich have to do something with their money, usually putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not Scrooge McDuck, they don't build a massive vault and just hoard all their money. If they actually did that, the effective amount of money in circulation would decrease, and the spending power would increase. The way to misallocate resources in the economy is to pay people to do things they shouldn't be doing, like overly high unemployment benefit, fraudulent disability benefits, useless jobs, or excessive numbers of prison places.
Money the government spends on things people wouldn't buy on their own (agricultural subsidies, bank bailouts) create inefficiency in the economy and slow growth.
Ah, yes, in funding Catholic parishes to care for children in utter safety, the Salvation Army to provide equally for straight people and GLBT people, and for missionary organizations to civilize the heathen hordes. Right. Based on your sig, you're none too enthusiastic about religious causes, but the vast majority of social charities are mainly fronts for religious organizations to evangelize and push their own social agenda . Government-run social programs at least have some semblance of accountability to society at large. At the very least, your response merits a big fat [citation needed]
Find me the statute which makes it a federal crime to joke about the president having been killed, and I'll find you the part of the Constitution which makes it invalid.
So true. That's one stroke of genius by President Obama. By selecting Biden for VP he made sure even the KKK pray for the health of the President every night.
Well, if it's a tactic it's a bipartisan one. If McCain had won you could swear every democrat would pray for his health too, or there'd be President Palin...
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not evil, but the free market is not perfect. Take a look at How Markets Fail. We've seen over the past ten years (or actually since 1980) that as the wealthy accumulate a greater and greater share of the wealth, average wages and employment figures do not improve. Also, there's no requirement that they invest or loan the money in the U.S. Whenever we given money to an investor, a lot of that money will end up overseas.